So right now, he’s lighting it up at second at the 2015 World Men’s Curling Championship. But we talked to Carter just before he traveled from Edmonton to Halifax about his team’s unlikely run to the Brier title. It’s the second time Carter has been on the show — the first time was way back in 2006.

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Her father, Kevin Park, has worn the Maple Leaf and now she will at the 2015 World Mixed Doubles Championship in Sochi. After a runner-up finish in 2014, Kalynn Park and two-time World Junior Champ Charley Thomas are this year’s Canadian Mixed Doubles Champions. Kalynn talks about this format and why she likes it. You may want to pay attention, because it certainly sounds like the a place in the Olympics is inevitable for Mixed Doubles.

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So it’s not the usual guest on this episode because we’re fairly sure that Ben Hulse and Greg Durrell are horrible curlers. They are, however, rather brilliant when it comes to creating compelling identity packages for sports organizations and their firm’s recent rebranding of the Canadian Curling Association as Curling Canada was very, very good. We talked to them about the process and the insight they gained into curling.

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At the Recharge with Milk Ontario Tankard, it was Team Kean topping Team Epping in an exciting final. I spoke to Mark about the biggest win of his career, a call in the 10th end he wouldn’t make again, and the fact that he and John essentially traded teams during the off-season.

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Outside of Ontario, she may not be as well-known as Rachel Homan or Sherry Middaugh, but Julie and her team have been working toward this moment for over 20 years. Yes, you read that right — Team Hastings has been playing together since 1994. Of course, I had to ask her how they’ve made that work. We also talked about the approach they’re taking to their first Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

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Looking forward to the next couple of months of curling — national championships, Grand Slams, world championships, and more!

The longtime second for Ontario’s Team Howard joined the revamped Team Kevin Koe in the off-season. The new lineup — Kevin Koe, Marc Kennedy, Brent, and Ben Hebert — has had an up-and-down season while they adjust to a new dynamic, but they cruised through the Alberta Boston Pizza Cup to earn a spot in the Tim Hortons Brier in Calgary. Brent, one of the more thoughtful guys in the game, gives us great insight into that process and what it’s been like to play his former teammates.

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Dean Gemmell is the 2012 U.S. Men's Champion and, ah, the 1988 Quebec Men's Champion. So he's sort of an ageless wonder like Glenn Howard — just without Glenn's talent.

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In 2009, Fit to Curl: A Sport-Specific Guide to Training for the World's Greatest Game by John Morris with Dean Gemmell, was released. All copies have been sold but we are considering a second edition and an e-book will be made available as soon as possible. You may also be able to find it through curling equipment retailers or with an especially pithy email message to me that begs for one of the very few copies I have stashed in the attic.